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Cooling & component installation
There is no cover and no pre-installed fans on the top so there is not much to talk about here. As for the front panel, as I have already previewed in the second chapter, there is actually no need to remove the whole panel to access the fans. You can see for yourself on the picture below. There are two 140mm fans from the factory which you can also replace with 120mm ones. The positions allow to shift them up or down a few centimeters.
If really needed, it is possible to remove the front panel. But as SilentiumPC does not expect you to, it holds quite firmly so it takes some force. Besides the access for the 5.25″ cage screws there is really nothing to do here. The front connector panel has separate mounting above the 5.25″ positions. The fans are sleeve bearing models “SPC Case FAN 140” which tells us close to nothing. There is enough oil in the bearing though Vaseline grease would be better.
For component installation with the M60W, I randomly selected the first Full-ATX motherboard I found together with some larger card. (In particular, the MSI Radeon R7 260X). No problems were met during the process. As I recently used the Azza Taurus 5000B (for lack of better one at hand) to transplant my HW from an old case, I also started considering the installation of fans. Especially with rubber plugs, there is usually no problem with screws. It was a nightmare to access some of the 12 positions in Azza; here it is no sweat at all.
Here we can see a detailed look at the expansion card positions. There are openings for screws, but in case you change cards often, you can just remove them and use the locking mechanism with that moving plate which should hold most cards well enough.
Mounting 3.5″ hard drives is easy, attach them with screws to the trays and then put them in the 3.5″ holder. While it is more complicated than the plastic caddies other companies use, I can assure you that my expectations of Azza were false and the case also started to resonate quite soon with my four 15k RPM drives. So the way SilentiumPC implemented it in the Aquarius M60W is actually better.
The situation is similar with the 2.5″ holders though there are no rubber grommets this time as even 2.5″ magnetic drives usually vibrate much less, and most users will just put SSD in there.
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